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<center><h1><font color=blue>TISEAN 3.0.1</font><br>
Nonlinear Time Series Analysis</h1>

<table><tr><td align=center><font size=5><b>
<a href="http://www.theochem.uni-frankfurt.de/~hegger">Rainer
Hegger</a>
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     <td width=20 align=center>*</td>
     <td align=center><font size=5><b>
<a href="http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~kantz">Holger Kantz</a>
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     <td width=20 align=center>*</td>
     <td align=center><font size=5><b>
<a href="http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~schreibe">Thomas Schreiber</a>
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<b><font size=5>With major contributions by <br>
<a href="http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~olbrich">Eckehard
Olbrich</a>
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<dt><font color=blue><b>TISEAN</b> is </font>
<dd> a software project for the
   analysis of time series with methods based on the theory of nonlinear
   deterministic dynamical systems, or chaos theory, if you prefer. It
   has grown out of the work of our groups during the last few years.
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<dt><font color=blue><b>TISEAN</b> copyright and citation</font> 
<dd> Starting from release 3.0.0 <b>TISEAN</b> is licensed under the
terms of the <a href="../COPYING">GPL</a> (version 2 or later).The <font
color=red>Copyright 
&#169;</font> to each 
   program is held by the person(s) named in the source code.  You may use and
   refer to the programs as you do with any scientific publication. The correct
   reference will be 
   <blockquote>
      R. Hegger, H. Kantz, and T. Schreiber, 
      <em>Practical implementation of nonlinear time series methods: 
      The TISEAN package</em>,
      <A HREF="http://ojps.aip.org/journals/doc/CHAOEH-home/top.html">CHAOS</A> 
      <b>9</b>, 413 (1999)
   <br> Preprint available:
   <a href="chaospaper/TiseanHTML.html">html</a> (part of this distribution),
   <a href="http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/chao-dyn/9810005">other</a>
   </blockquote>
   
   For any of the surrogate data routines, please also give reference to
   <blockquote>
      T. Schreiber and A. Schmitz,
      <em>Surrogate time series</em>,
      Physica D <b>142</b> 346 (2000)
   <br> Preprint available:
   <a href="surropaper/Surrogates.html">html</a> (part of this distribution),
   <a href="http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/chao-dyn/9909037">other</a>
   </blockquote>

   We thank Marcus Richter, and Andreas Schmitz for their support of the
   project. 
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   Theoretical background material can be found in the book
   <blockquote>
      H. Kantz and T. Schreiber,
      ``<a
   href="http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~schreibe/myrefs/book.html">Nonlinear
   Time Series Analysis</a>'', 2nd edition,
      Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2004).
   </blockquote>
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<dt><font color=blue><b>TISEAN</b> disclaimer</font>
<dd> This software is given <font color=red>WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY</font>;  
   without even an implied 
   statement of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. If you
   decide to use these programs, you do so entirely <font color=red>AT YOUR OWN
   RISK</font>.  
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<dt><font color=blue><b>TISEAN</b> distribution</font> 
<dd> is in source form (some code
   in C, some in FORTRAN) including the full documentation. Also, executables
   for some archtectures are available. Please consult the 
   <a
      href="http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~tisean/archive_3.0.0.html">download page</a> for available formats. 
   You are
   very welcome to port the programs to other platforms or write interfaces to
   other software as long as the GPL is not violated. Let us know of
   any success! 
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<dt><font color=blue><b>TISEAN</b> installation</font>
<dd> The software can be compiled and installed using some reasonable version
   of <font color=red>make</font>, a <font color=red>C compiler</font>, and a
   <font color=red>FORTRAN compiler</font>. The <font color=red>gcc</font> /
   <font color=red>g77</font> family will do fine. If you lack one of the
   compilers, part of the package may still compile and work. It would be a
   pity, though, for the other part.
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<dt><font color=blue><b>TISEAN</b> updates</font>
<dd> The range of programs is constantly growing and improving. 
   For the latest version, check <a
   href="http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~tisean">http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~tisean</a>. 
   We are doing our best to remove bugs and straighten things but
   we are also working on additional material to be included in later releases.
   If you want to keep up-to-date about bug fixes and updates, observe
   the announcements
   <a href="http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~tisean/archive_3.0.0.html#messages">
   here</a>.
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<dt><font color=blue><b>TI</b>me
<b>SE</b>ries <b>AN</b>alysis</font>
<dd> remains a difficult business, in particular the nonlinear kind. 
   You may be assured that when treating the
   programs as a black box, you are certain to get <font color=red>nonsensical
   results</font>. Even if you know what you are doing, output produced by
   the programs has to be interpreted very carefully and can often not be taken
   as it is. Now that you are warned, go ahead and <font color=red>have
   fun!</font> A good place to start is the <a
   href="tutorial/exercises.html" target="main">tutorial</a>.
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<dt><font color=blue><b>Derived and related projects:</b></font>
<dd>From time to time people ask whether there are interfaces to
  program A or program B. We are command line purits so we don't need
  such interfaces. Anyway, here
  are the projects (we know of) of other people writing such interfaces:
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<th><a href="http://tsnonlinear.uniud.it" target=_blank>RTisean</a></th>
<td>Interface to the program package R</td>
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<em>Copyright &#169;  (1998-2007) Rainer Hegger, Holger Kantz, Thomas Schreiber
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